From: Dan L. <da...@la...> - 2015-02-14 23:26:43
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This post came to my attention recently: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-February/006581.html In short: "The primary focus of these changes is to modernize FreeBSD's tape infrastructure so that we can take advantage of some of the features of modern tape drives and allow support for LTFS." I don't know enough about these device to gauge the affects on the project. — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ |
From: Dan L. <da...@la...> - 2015-03-02 15:56:55
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On Mar 2, 2015, at 6:39 AM, Alan Brown <a....@uc...> wrote: > > On 14/02/15 23:26, Dan Langille wrote: >> This post came to my attention recently: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-February/006581.html >> >> In short: "The primary focus of these changes is to modernize FreeBSD's >> tape infrastructure so that we can take advantage of some of the >> features of modern tape drives and allow support for LTFS." >> >> I don't know enough about these device to gauge the affects on the project. > > As far as I can tell ltfs support on linux sits on top of the standard mt-st stuff as a userspace (fuse) filesystem > > I'd hope it's much the same with BSD. Removing the standard interface would be counterproductive overall I don't know the details. The code has been committed to FreeBSD HEAD. I installed that on my test system here. I have run some tar tests and the code passes the basic btape test. Next step is Bacula jobs. Does this confirm that the standard interface remains? — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ |
From: Dan L. <da...@la...> - 2015-03-02 17:48:50
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> On Mar 2, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Dan Langille <da...@la...> wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2015, at 6:39 AM, Alan Brown <a....@uc...> wrote: >> >> On 14/02/15 23:26, Dan Langille wrote: >>> This post came to my attention recently: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-February/006581.html >>> >>> In short: "The primary focus of these changes is to modernize FreeBSD's >>> tape infrastructure so that we can take advantage of some of the >>> features of modern tape drives and allow support for LTFS." >>> >>> I don't know enough about these device to gauge the affects on the project. >> >> As far as I can tell ltfs support on linux sits on top of the standard mt-st stuff as a userspace (fuse) filesystem >> >> I'd hope it's much the same with BSD. Removing the standard interface would be counterproductive overall > > I don't know the details. The code has been committed to FreeBSD HEAD. I installed that on my test system here. > I have run some tar tests and the code passes the basic btape test. Next step is Bacula jobs. > > Does this confirm that the standard interface remains? I asked the developer: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-March/006619.html — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ |